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Facebook Reviews Scraper for Laravel 5

Installation

To install, run the following in your project directory:

$ composer require div-art/fbreviews

Then in config/app.php add the following to the providers array:

\DivArt\FBReviews\FBReviewsServiceProvider::class,

Also in config/app.php, add the Facade class to the aliases array:

'FBReviews' => \DivArt\FBReviews\Facades\FBReviews::class,

Configuration

To publish FBReviews configuration file, run the following vendor:publish command:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="DivArt\FBReviews\FBReviewsServiceProvider"

This will create a fbreview.php in your config directory. Then you can make next command

$ php artisan migrate

Add this code to app/Console/Kernel.php to method "schedule"

$schedule->command('fbreview:scrap')
    ->timezone(config('fbreview.fb_timezone'))
    ->dailyAt(config('fbreview.fb_daily_at'));

Add this conf to .env file

FACEBOOK_API_KEY=<YOUR FACEBOOK API KEY>
FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY=<YOUR FACEBOOK SECRET KEY>
FACEBOOK_DAILY_AT=<TIME AT DAY SHEDULER>
FACEBOOK_TIMEZONE=<TIMEZOME>

Add to cron

// cron sheduler
* * * * * php \path\artisan schedule:run

Usage

Send GET requet to /fbreview/reviews?url=

Methods

Get reviews

FBReviews::getByID(<FACEBOOK PAGE ID>);
FBReviews::getByUrl(<FACEBOOK PAGE URL>);

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.